Darius Bunandar
Founder and Chief Scientist of Lightmatter; co-author of a 2025 Nature paper on photonic AI acceleration
- Founder, Chief Scientist and board member, Lightmatter1
Darius Bunandar is a founder and the Chief Scientist of Lightmatter, which describes its work as photonic infrastructure for AI spanning interconnects, lasers and eventually compute, and serves on the company's board of directors. Bunandar is a co-author of "Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration", published in Nature in April 2025 with Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris among the co-authors.12
Lightmatter
Bunandar is listed as a founder and Chief Scientist on Lightmatter's leadership page and is a member of its board of directors. The company describes its work as photonic infrastructure for AI at scale, spanning interconnects, lasers and eventually compute.1
In April 2025, Bunandar was among the authors of a Nature paper on universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration, alongside Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris and 40 other co-authors.21
Work
Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration (external site: doi.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2025 Nature paper "Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration".2
Career timeline
Apr 9, 2025
Co-authored "Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration", published in Nature.2
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